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• the present application relates to a set of expression vectors designed for enhancing the production of recombinant proteins in plants and methods of using same.
• viruses encode for proteins that act as suppressors of gene-silencing (SGS).
• SGS suppressors of gene-silencing
• P19 from the Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus (TBSV) is an example of proteins known to function as a potent suppressor of gene-silencing in plants as well as in animals (Scholthof, 2006; Voinnet et al., 1999).
• Plants also react to most transfer DNA (T-DNA) transgenes that invade their genomes by initiating a post- transcriptional gene silencing response (Baulcombe, 2004; Brodersen and Voinnet, 2006).
• T-DNA transfer DNA
• the inhibitory effect of P19 on the gene-silencing pathway has been exploited to enhance expression levels of recombinant proteins in plants (Voinnet et al., 2003), but its use has been limited to transient expression only, mainly due to the deleterious effects of this protein when expressed constitutively at high levels in a transgenic setting (Siddiqui et al., 2008).
• RNAi interfering RNA
• RISC carries a complementary single stranded RNA probe for its target, which upon binding, is either blocked or degraded.
• P19 is a multifunctional protein that is active as a dimer and found in both the cytosol and the nucleus (Park et al., 2004). It is capable of binding siRNA and miRNA molecules in a non-specific fashion (Dunoyer et al., 2004). Since there is a rise in virus-derived siRNA levels in plants in response to infection (Scholthof et al.
• P19 acts to reduce the amount of free siRNA duplexes through non-specific binding and represses the silencing response by interfering with siRNA loading of RISC (Hsieh et al., 2009).
• Studies on TBSV mutants with lowered levels of P19 have shown that a high titer of the protein is critical for exerting its biological activity (Qiu et al., 2002; Scholthof et al., 1999).
• the effects brought about by this protein show host-specificity (Ahn et al., 201 1 ; Angel et al., 201 1 ; Siddiqui et al., 2008).
• Nicotiana species display a variation in induction of the hypersensitive response (HR) to the P19 protein of TBSV, which is indicated by an initial leaf discoloration that leads to necrosis at the site of infection (Angel et al., 201 1 ).
• HR hypersensitive response
• discoloration from HR develops 2-3 days after infiltration of leaves with P19, leading to fully dehydrated spots on day 7, while the same treatment yields no necrosis or discoloration in N. benthamiana.
• Stable transgenic expression of P19 does not elicit HR in either N. tabacum cv. Xanthi or N.
• glycomodified plants have been created through RNAi gene- silencing technology, mainly due to the existence of multiple endogenous fucosyltransferase and xylosyltransferase genes in most plants (Cox et al., 2006; Sourrouille et al., 2008; Strasser et al., 2008).
• the present inventors have designed and tested a suite of plant expression vectors which are suitable for enhancing expression of recombinant protein in both transient expression and stable transgenic plants.
• the unique combination of promoter, 5' UTR, and 3' UTR/terminator in these vectors drives high levels of heterologous protein expression in plants, including Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana tabacum.
• the present application provides an expression vector comprising: (a) a promoter selected from (i) the 35S promoter of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) or (ii) the promoter of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rbc) small subunit gene of Chrysanthemum morifolium;
• a promoter selected from (i) the 35S promoter of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) or (ii) the promoter of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rbc) small subunit gene of Chrysanthemum morifolium;
• a 5' untranslated region selected from (i) the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV or (ii) the 5' UTR of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium; and
• a 3' UTR and terminator sequence selected from (i) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the nopaline synthase (nos) gene of Agrobacterium, (ii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the osmotin (osm) gene of Oryza sativa, (iii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium or (iv) a truncated version, by 162 bp as defined by a BspE ⁇ recognition site, of the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium.
• a nucleic acid sequence encoding a recombinant protein is cloned in the above-mentioned vectors.
• the present application further provides a method of enhancing the production of a recombinant protein in a plant comprising:
• a promoter selected from (i) the 35S promoter of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) or (ii) the promoter of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rbc) small subunit gene of Chrysanthemum morifolium;
• a 5' untranslated region selected from (i) the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV or (ii) the 5' UTR of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium;
• Agrobacterium (ii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the osmotin (osm) gene of Oryza sativa, (iii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium or (iv) a truncated version, by 162 bp as defined by a BspE ⁇ recognition site, of the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium; and
• the recombinant protein is co-expressed with the P19 suppressor of gene-silencing protein from tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV).
• TBSV tomato bushy stunt virus
• Figure 1 Diagram of the expression cassettes used in Example 1 .
• the expression cassettes shown here were situated on the T-DNA region of binary vectors.
• Vector 102mAb was the only vector carrying the heavy (HC) and light chains (LC) of trastuzumab on the same T-DNA.
• HC heavy
• LC light chains
• FIG. 2 Western blot analysis of trastuzumab expressed transiently with different plant expression vectors in N. benthamiana. Expression of the 103-106mAb vectors was analyzed over 6 days. Plants were treated by vacuum infiltration. Each lane represents a pooled sample, created by mixing three leaf samples. The vectors were either expressed alone (A), or together with P19 (B). All vector sets carried the same codes for the HC and LC of trastuzumab coupled with different UTRs. Different expression dynamics were observed when vectors were expressed alone or together with P19, as determined by ELISA (C).
• FIG. 3 Western blot analysis of trastuzumab expressed transiently with (A) 102mAb and with (B) TMV/PVX (virus-based) expression vectors in N. benthamiana. Plants were treated by spot infiltration. Pooled samples were generated by combining three infiltrated spots. Two pooled samples (harvested 5 d.p.i.) are shown for each treatment. Similar to 106mAb, co-expression of P19 did not affect the level of trastuzumab expressed with either vector.
• FIG. 4 Western blot analysis showing the dose-dependent effect of P19 on enhancing recombinant antibody expression in N. benthamiana.
• 103mAb vectors were co-expressed with P19 at three different concentrations of Agrobacterium, 0.02, and 0.002. Plants were treated by spot infiltration. Pooled sampled were generated by combining three infiltrated spots. Each lane represents a pooled sample.
• FIG. 5 Differential response of N. tabacum and N. benthamiana to P19.
• Western blot analysis showing transient expression of trastuzumab alone or together with P19 in N. benthamiana and five different N. tabacum cultivars (A) and N. tabacum crosses (B). Plants were treated by spot infiltration. Samples were pooled by combining three infiltrated spots. Each lane represents a pooled sample.
• Co-expression of 103mAb with P19 resulted in a significant reduction in antibody expression in all tobacco cultivars except in LCR. The drop in antibody expression indicates an intensified state of RNAi silencing.
• FIG. 6 N-Glycan profiles of 103mAb expressed in N. benthamiana WT (A) and in AXTFT without (B) and with P19 (C).
• N-glycan analyses were carried out by liquid-chromatography-electrospray ionization- mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) of tryptic glycopeptides as described previously (Stadlmann et al., 2008; Strasser et al., 2008). Note, that incomplete tryptic digest results in the generation of two giycopeptides that differ by 482 Da. Glycopeptide 1 is indicated with asterisks ( * ). See http://www.proglycan.com for N-glycan abbreviations.
• FIG. 7 Transient co-infiltration of P19 expression vector greatly enhances the expression of two more therapeutic antibodies in Nicotiana benthamiana. Coding sequences for both anti-HIV mAb 4E10 and bevacizumab were spot-infiltrated, with and without P19, into N. benthamiana leaf tissue and harvested after 7 days. Each Agrobacterium strain was applied at a final OD 60 o of 0.2. Tissue harvests for each treatment included 3 or 4 spots, which were pooled and total soluble protein (TSP) was extracted as described in Garabagi et al. (2012a,b). A 10% non-reducing SDS-PAGE gel was run that included 10 ⁇ g TSP for each plant sample.
• TSP total soluble protein
• Electrophoretically separated proteins were subsequently electrotransferred to PVDF membrane and probed with combined anti- ⁇ and anti- ⁇ antibody probes conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (also described in Garabagi et al., 2012a). Results indicate that co-expression of P19 greatly enhances expression of both antibodies irrespective of antibody expression vector.
• the gel loading scheme is tabulated above the immunoblot image, and the size of each molecular weight marker band in lane 1 is given on the left in kDa.
• the human serum immunoglobulin quantification standard in lane 10 is 500 ng.
• FIG. 8 Transient expression of human butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in N. benthamiana is greatly enhanced by co-expression of P19.
• BChE expression vectors were constructed in p105T: (1 ) with the Arabidopsis basic chitinase (abc) signal sequence and a synthetic BChE coding sequence optimized for expression in plants referred to as E2, i.e., abc- BChE2; and (2) with the native human BChE signal sequence (hSS) and another synthetic BChE coding sequence optimized for expression in plants referred to as E3, i.e., hSS-BChE3. These were introduced into whole N.
• abc Arabidopsis basic chitinase
• hSS native human BChE signal sequence
• E3 i.e., hSS-BChE3.
• benthamiana plants by vacuum infiltration Garabagi et al., 20 2a, b
• Samples were taken at 5, 7 and 9 days post-infiltration (DPI) and BChE activity was measured by Ellman Assay (Ellman et al., 1961 ). All histogram bars present amounts of BChE in mg BChE/kg leaf tissue, by converting activity measurements to mass of enzyme using the specific activity conversion factor of 718.3 activity units per mg of BChE determined in Weber ef al. (2010). Note that background readings (as determined with untreated plant extracts) have been subtracted for the presentation of these data. Histogram bars indicate the mean BChE activity measured in 2 samples from 2 plants (4 total repeats each) with associated standard error bars.
• Figure 9 Diagram of one of the expression cassettes used in Figure 7 and in Figure 8.
• the 105 mAb expression cassette from Figure 1 is shown at the top of the figure. Insertion of a coding sequence for a recombinant protein to be expressed in plants is performed by using the restriction endonuclease BspEI for ligation of the 3' end of that coding sequence, resulting in a 162 bp deletion of the 5' end of the Rbc 3' UTR and terminator.
• the present inventors have designed and tested a suite of plant expression vectors which are suitable for enhancing expression of recombinant protein in plants.
• the unique combination of promoter, 5' UTR, and 3' UTR/terminator in these vectors drives high levels of heterologous protein expression in plants, including Nicotiana benthamiana and
• the application provides an expression vector comprising:
• a promoter selected from (i) the 35S promoter of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) or (ii) the promoter of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase ⁇ rbc) small subunit gene of Chrysanthemum morifolium; (b) a 5' untranslated region (UTR) selected from (i) the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV or (ii) the 5' UTR of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium; and
• Agrobacterium (ii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the osmotin (osm) gene of Oryza sativa, (iii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium or (iv) a truncated version, by 162 bp as defined by a BspE ⁇ recognition site, of the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium.
• expression vector means a nucleic acid molecule, such as a plasmid, comprising regulatory elements and a site for introducing transgenic DNA, which is used to introduce said transgenic DNA into a host cell.
• the transgenic DNA can encode a heterologous protein, which can be expressed in and isolated from plant cells.
• Regulatory elements include promoters, 5' and 3' untranslated regions (UTRs) and terminator sequences or truncations thereof.
• the regulatory elements of the present invention can be selected from the 35S promoter and 5'UTR of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV; Genbank accession: AF140604), the promoter and 5' UTR of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase ⁇ rbc) small subunit gene from Chrysanthemum morifolium (Genbank accession: AY163904.1 ), the heat-shock (Hsp81 .1 ) promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana, the 3' UTR and terminator sequences from the nopaline synthase (nos) gene of Agrobacterium (Genbank accession: V00087.1 ), the 3' UTR and terminator sequences from the osmotin (osm) gene of Oryza sativa (Genbank accession: L76377.1 ) and the 3'
• the expression vector comprises the 35S promoter of CaMV, operably linked to the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV and the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the nos gene of Agrobacterium. This expression vector may also be referred to as p103.
• the expression vector comprises the 35S promoter of CaMV, operably linked to the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV and the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the osm gene of Oryza sativa. This expression vector may also be referred to as p104.
• the expression vector comprises the 35S promoter of CaMV, operably linked to the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV and the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium.
• This expression vector may also be referred to as p105.
• the expression vector comprises the 35S promoter of CaMV, operably linked to the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV and a truncated version, by 162 bp as defined by a SspEI recognition site, of the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium.
• This expression vector may also be referred to as p105T.
• the expression vector comprises the promoter of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium, operably linked to the 5' UTR of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium and the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium.
• This expression vector may also be referred to as p106.
• nucleic acid molecule means a sequence of nucleoside or nucleotide monomers consisting of naturally occurring bases, sugars and intersugar (backbone) linkages. The term also includes modified or substituted sequences comprising non-naturally occurring monomers or portions thereof.
• the nucleic acid sequences of the present invention may be deoxyribonucleic acid sequences (DNA) or ribonucleic acid sequences (RNA) and may include naturally occurring bases including adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymidine and uracil.
• the sequences may also contain modified bases. Examples of such modified bases include aza and deaza adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymidine and uracil; and xanthine and hypoxanthine.
• the application provides an expression vector comprising:
• a promoter selected from (i) the 35S promoter of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) or (ii) the promoter of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rbc) small subunit gene of Chrysanthemum morifolium;
• a 5' untranslated region selected from (i) the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV or (ii) the 5' UTR of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium;
• the term "recombinant protein” means any polypeptide that can be expressed in a plant cell, wherein said polypeptide is encoded by transgenic DNA introduced into the plant cell via use of an expression vector.
• the expression vector is p103.
• the expression vector is p 105 or p105T.
• the recombinant protein is an antibody or antibody fragment.
• the antibody is trastuzumab or a modified form thereof, consisting of 2 heavy chains (HC) and 2 light chains (LC).
• trastuzumab Herceptin ® Genentech Inc., San Francisco, CA
• HC heavy chains
• LC 2 light chains
• trastuzumab Herceptin ® Genentech Inc., San Francisco, CA
• trastuzumab is a humanized murine immunoglobulin G1K antibody that is used in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
• the antibody is bevacizumab or a modified form thereof, consisting of 2 heavy chains (HC) and 2 light chains (LC).
• Bevacizumab (trade name Avastin, Genentech/Roche) is an angiogenesis inhibitor, a drug that slows the growth of new blood vessels. It is licensed to treat various cancers, including colorectal, lung, breast, glioblastoma, kidney and ovarian.
• the recombinant protein is an enzyme such as a therapeutic enzyme.
• the therapeutic enzyme is butyrylcholinesterase.
• Butyrylcholinesterase also known as pseudocholinesterase, plasma cholinesterase, BCHE, or BuChE
• BCHE plasma cholinesterase
• BuChE BuChE
• nucleic acid molecules encoding the HC and LC of an antibody or antibody fragment or the coding sequence of a therapeutic enzyme can be incorporated separately into one expression vector each or incorporated together into a single expression vector comprising multiple expression cassettes.
• expression cassette means a single, operably linked set of regulatory elements that includes a promoter, a 5' UTR, an insertion site for transgenic DNA, a 3' UTR and a terminator sequence.
• antibody fragment includes, without limitation, Fab, Fab', F(ab')2, scFv, dsFv, ds-scFv, dimers, minibodies, diabodies, and multimers thereof and bispecific antibody fragments.
• a signal peptide that directs the polypeptide to the secretory pathway of plant cells may be placed at the amino termini of recombinant proteins, including antibody HCs and/or LCs.
• the Arabidopsis thaliana basic chitinase signal peptide SP
• MAKTNLFLFLIFSLLLSLSSA SEQ ID NO:2
• the native human butyrylcholinesterase signal peptide SP
• MHSKVTIICIRFLFWFLLLCMLIGKSHT SEQ ID NO:3
• MHSKVTIICIRFLFWFLLLCMLIGKSHT SEQ ID NO:3
• signal peptides can be mined from GenBank [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank ] or other such databases, and their sequences added to the N-termini of the HC or LC, nucleotides sequences for these being optimized for plant preferred codons as described above and then synthesized.
• GenBank http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank ] or other such databases, and their sequences added to the N-termini of the HC or LC, nucleotides sequences for these being optimized for plant preferred codons as described above and then synthesized.
• the functionality of a SP sequence can be predicted using online freeware such as the SignalP program
• the nucleic acid constructs encoding recombinant proteins are optimized for plant codon usage.
• the nucleic acid sequence encoding the heavy chain and light chain can be modified to incorporate preferred plant codons.
• coding sequences for both the HC and LC, including the SP in both cases were optimized for expression in Nicotiana species. The first goal of this procedure was to make the coding sequences more similar to those of Nicotiana species. Codon optimizations were performed utilizing online freeware, i.e., the Protein Back Translation program (Entelchon), and Nicotiana coding sequence preferences.
• Codons with the highest frequencies for each amino acid in Nicotiana species were thereby incorporated. Furthermore, potential intervening sequence splice-site acceptor and donor motifs were identified (Shapiro et al., 1987; CNR National Research Council) and subsequently removed by replacement with nucleotides that resulted in codons encoding the same amino acids. Inverted repeat sequences were analyzed using the Genebee RNA Secondary Structure software package (Brodsky et al.; GeneBee Molecular Biology Server); nucleotides were changed to reduce the free energy (kilocalories per mole) of potential secondary structure while maintaining the polypeptide sequence. Likewise, repeated elements were analyzed (CNR National Research Council) and replaced where present.
• Seletectable marker genes can also be linked on the T-DNA, such as kanamycin resistance gene (also known as neomycin phonphatase gene II, or nptll), Basta resistance gene, hygromycin resistance gene, or others.
• kanamycin resistance gene also known as neomycin phonphatase gene II, or nptll
• Basta resistance gene hygromycin resistance gene, or others.
• the recombinant protein such as an antibody or therapeutic enzyme, is co-expressed with the P19 protein from Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus (TBSV; Genbank accession: M21958).
• TBSV Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus
• the P19 protein from TBSV is expressed from a nucleic acid molecule which has been modified to optimize expression levels in tobacco plants.
• the modified P19-encoding nucleic acid molecule has the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1.
• the P19-encoding nucleic acid is incorporated into one of the expression vectors of the present invention.
• the expression vector is p103, p105 or p 05T.
• the P19 protein can be expressed from an expression vector comprising a single expression cassette or from an expression vector containing one or more additional cassettes, wherein the one or more additional cassettes comprise transgenic DNA encoding one or more recombinant proteins.
• the present application provides a method of enhancing the production of a recombinant protein in a plant comprising:
• Cauliflower Mosaic Virus or (ii) the promoter of the ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rbc) small subunit gene of Chrysanthemum morifolium;
• a 5' untranslated region selected from (i) the 35S 5' UTR of CaMV or (ii) the 5' UTR of the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium;
• a 3' UTR and terminator sequence selected from (i) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the nopaline synthase (nos) gene of Agrobacterium, (ii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence of the osmotin (osm) gene of Oryza sativa, (iii) the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium, or (iv) a truncated version, by 162 bp as defined by a BspE ⁇ recognition site, of the 3' UTR and terminator sequence from the rbc small subunit gene of C. morifolium; and
• the recombinant protein is the only heterologous protein expressed in the plant or plant cell.
• the recombinant protein is co-expressed with the P19 protein from TBSV.
• the P19 protein and expression vectors for expressing it are described above.
• the recombinant protein is an antibody or antibody fragment, comprising a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region.
• the antibody is trastuzumab.
• the antibody is bevacizumab.
• the recombinant protein is an enzyme such as butyrylcholinesterase.
• the nucleic acid molecule encoding the heavy chain variable region and the nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain variable region may be introduced into the plant cell on separate expression vectors.
• the nucleic acid molecule encoding the heavy chain variable region and the nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain variable region may be introduced into the plant cell on the same expression vector. In such an embodiment, the heavy chain and the light chain would be expressed separately and then combine in the plant cell in order to prepare the desired antibody or antibody fragment.
• phrases "introducing" an expression vector into a plant or plant cell” includes both the stable integration of the recombinant nucleic acid molecule into the genome of a plant cell to prepare a transgenic plant as well as the transient integration of the recombinant nucleic acid into a plant or part thereof.
• the expression vectors may be introduced into the plant cell using techniques known in the art including, without limitation, electroporation, an accelerated particle delivery method, a cell fusion method or by any other method to deliver the expression vectors to a plant cell, including Agrobacterium mediated delivery, or other bacterial delivery such as Rhizobium sp. NGR234, Sinorhizobium meliloti and Mesorhizobium loti (Chung et al, 2006).
• the plant cell may be any plant cell, including, without limitation, tobacco plants, tomato plants, maize plants, alfalfa plants, Nicotiana benthamiana, Nicotiana tabacum, Nicotiana tabacum of the cultivar cv. Little Crittenden, rice plants, Lemna major or Lemna minor (duckweeds), safflower plants or any other plants that are both agriculturally propagated and amenable to genetic modification for the expression of recombinant or foreign proteins.
• the recombinant protein is expressed transiently, with or without P19, in N. benthamiana.
• the nucleic acid molecule encoding the recombinant protein is integrated into the genome of an N. tabacum plant, which can be used thereafter for transgenic expression.
• the N. tabacum plant is of the cultivar cv. Little Crittenden (LCR) and the recombinant protein is co-expressed with P19.
• LCR was the only cultivar identified that does not induce hypersensitive response (HR) in the presence of P19. This tobacco cultivar can thus be utilized effectively in conjunction with P19-based transgenic expression systems.
• the recombinant protein and P19 are co- expressed in an RNAi-based glycomodified tobacco plant.
• the plant is an N. benthamiana plant.
• the N. benthamiana plant exhibits RNAi-induced gene-silencing of endogenous fucosyltransferase (FT) and xylosyltransferase (XT) genes.
• FT fucosyltransferase
• XT xylosyltransferase
• P19 can safely be used with RNAi-based glycomodifed N. benthamiana expression hosts for the production of recombinant proteins such as antibodies without altering the glycan profile of the recombinant protein.
• RNAi-based glycomodified tobacco plant means a tobacco plant that expresses polypeptides with altered glycan profiles, wherein the altered profiles result from the use of interfering RNA (RNAi) gene-silencing technology.
• Plant-specific sugar residues on the N- glycan core, namely core a1 ,3-fucose and 1 are immunogenic in mammals (Bardor et al., 2003; Jin et al., 2008).
• modified glycosylation patterns are preferably created with the use of RNAi technology (Cox et al., 2006; Sourrouille et al., 2008; Strasser et al., 2008).
• the phrase "growing a plant or plant cell to obtain a plant that expresses a recombinant protein” includes both growing transgenic plant cells into a mature plant as well as growing or culturing a mature plant that has received the nucleic acid molecules encoding the recombinant protein.
• growing transgenic plant cells into a mature plant includes both growing transgenic plant cells into a mature plant as well as growing or culturing a mature plant that has received the nucleic acid molecules encoding the recombinant protein.
• One of skill in the art can readily determine the appropriate growth conditions in each case.
• expression vectors containing the recombinant nucleic acid molecules are introduced into A. tumefaciens strain by electroporation procedures.
• the N. benthamiana plants can be vacuum infiltrated according to the protocol described by Marillonnet et al. (2005) and Giritch et al. (2006) with several modifications. Briefly, all cultures can be grown at 28°C and 220 rpm to a final optical density at 600 nm (OD 60 o) of 1 .8.
• Equal volumes are combined and pelleted by centrifugation at 8,000 rpm for 4 minutes, resuspended and diluted by 10 3 in infiltration buffer (10 mM 1-( ⁇ /- morpholino)ethanesulphonic acid (MES) pH 5.5, 10 mM MgSC ).
• infiltration buffer 10 mM 1-( ⁇ /- morpholino)ethanesulphonic acid (MES) pH 5.5, 10 mM MgSC .
• MES 1-( ⁇ /- morpholino)ethanesulphonic acid
• nucleic acid molecule encoding the heavy chain variable region may be attached to the nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain variable region by a linker in order to prepare a single chain variable region fragment (scFv).
• scFv single chain variable region fragment
• nucleic acid molecule encoding the heavy chain and the nucleic acid molecule encoding the light chain may be introduced into the plant cell on separate expression vector nucleic acid constructs.
• the heavy chain and the light chain would be expressed from separate transgenic loci and then combine in the plant cell in order to prepare the antibody or antibody fragment.
• Expression vector(s) containing antibody HC and LC genes would be introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens At542 or other suitable Agrobacterium isolates or other suitable bacterial species capable of introducing DNA to plants for transformation such as Rhizobium sp., Sinorhizobium meliloti, Mesorhizobium loti and other species (Broothaerts et al. 2005; Chung et al., 2006), by electroporation or other bacterial transformation procedures.
• Agrobacterium clones containing expression vectors would be propagated on Luria-Bertani (LB) plates containing rifampicin (30 mg/l) and kanamycin (50 mg/l), or other selectable media, depending on the nature of the selectable marker genes on the vector.
• Agfrobacfer/ ' um-mediated leaf disk transformation (Horsch et al. 1985; Gelvin, 2003), or similar protocols involving wounded tobacco (N. tabacum, variety 81 V9 or tissue of other tobacco varieties such as are listed in Conley et al, 2009) or N. benthamiana or other plant species such as those of the Solanaceae, maize, safflower, Lemna spp.,etc.
• MS Murashige and Skoog plus vitamins medium
• MS agar
• kanamycin 100 mg/l
• cefotaxime 500 cefotaxime
• Production of shoots would be induced with naphthalene acetic acid (NAA; 0.1 mg/l; Sigma) and benzyl adenine (BA; 1 mg/l; Sigma) in the medium.
• NAA naphthalene acetic acid
• BA benzyl adenine
• a homozygous line with single T-DNA insertions that are shown by molecular analysis to produce most amounts of antibody, would be chosen for breeding to homozygosity and seed production, ensuring subsequent sources of seed for homogeneous production of antibody by the stable transgenic or genetically modified crop (Olea-Popelka et al., 2005; McLean et al., 2007; Yu et al., 2008).
• the expression vector with both HC and LC genes could be used to transiently infect a plant or plant tissues, as described above, and tissue harvested as described above for subsequent purification of antibody.
• the antibody or antibody fragment or the enzyme may be purified or isolated from the plants using techniques known in the art, including homogenization, clarification of homogenate and affinity purification.
• Homogenization is any process that crushes or breaks up plant tissues and cells and produces homogeneous liquids from plant tissues, such as using a blender, or juicer, or grinder, or pulverizer such as mortar and pestle, etc. Clarification involves either / and / or centrifugation, filtration, etc.
• Affinity purification uses Protein A or Protein G or Protein L or antibodies that bind antibodies; affinity purification for enzymes uses ligands that bind them, such as procainamide or huprine.
• Expression cassettes 103-105 contain the 35S promoter and 5'UTR of the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV; Genbank accession: AF140604), while 106 contains the promoter and 5' UTR of ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (rbc) small subunit gene from Chrysanthemum morifolium (Genbank accession: AY163904.1 ).
• CaMV Cauliflower Mosaic Virus
• rbc ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase
• Cassette 103 contains the 3' UTR and terminator sequences from the nopaline synthase (nos) gene of Agrobacterium (Genbank accession: V00087.1 ), cassette 104 contains the 3' UTR and terminator sequences from the osmotin (osm) gene of Oryza sativa (Genbank accession: L76377.1 ), and cassettes 105 and 06 carry the 3' UTR and terminator sequences from the rbc gene of C. morifolium (Genbank accession: AY163904.1 ).
• the structures of another expression cassette is depicted in Figure 9.
• This expression cassette was derived from p105 by insertion of a coding sequence for a recombinant protein to be expressed in plants using the restriction endonuclease BspEI for ligation of the 3' end of that coding sequence, resulting in a 162 bp deletion of the 5' end of the Rbc 3' UTR and terminator.
• the resulting plasmid is known as p105T.
• the P19 protein from Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus (TBSV; Genbank accession: M21958) was cloned in cassette 103.
• the heavy and light chains of trastuzumab (Grohs et al., 2010) were cloned separately in expression cassettes 103-106.
• the heavy and light chains were both fused to the signal sequence from the basic chitinase gene of Arabidopsis thaliana (Genbank accession: AY054628) for secretion into the apoplast. All protein sequences were codon-optimized for expression in N. benthamiana. The codon-optimized nucleic acid molecule encoding P 9 has the sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:1.
• the heavy and light chains of trastuzumab were also cloned in a single binary vector, designated as 102mAb, in which the heavy chain was driven by actin2 promoter from Arabidopsis thaliana (Genbank accession: NM_1 12764) with A.
• thaliana actin2 UTRs and terminator region and the light chain driven by the chimeric octopine and mannopine synthase promoter (Genbank accession: EU181 146.1 ) with UTRs and terminator region of A. thaliana ubiquitin 10 ⁇ ubq10) gene (Genbank accession: L05361 ).
• Competent Agrobacterium tumefaciens A136 cells were transformed with the above-mentioned expression cassettes by a standard heat-shock method. Bacterial cultures were grown overnight at 28°C in YEP medium (10 g Bacto peptone, 10 g yeast extract, and 5 g sodium chloride per liter, pH 7.0) supplemented with antibiotics.
• N:P:K 20:8:20
• To transiently express trastuzumab an AIC containing two Agrobacterium strains, each harboring one of the antibody chains, were used to infiltrate plant leaves. All plants were treated at the 4- to 6-week stage, either by spot or whole-plant infiltration. Shortly after treatment, the plants were placed back in the greenhouse for a certain period of time prior to harvest, depending on the expression vector. During this period, plants were only fed water.
• a frozen aliquot was thawed, and spun in a refrigerated bench-top centrifuge at > 13,000 rpm for 1 minute to clarify the crude extract for protein quantitation. Either a Bradford or a BCA (Pierce) assay was used to determine protein concentration of the once-thawed crude extracts. Thirty pg of total soluble protein (TSP) per sample was loaded in each well on an 8% SDS- polyacrylamide gel.
• TSP total soluble protein
• the separated proteins were blotted on a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane and probed for antibody presence with a mix of alkaline phosphatase conjugated anti-human ⁇ and ⁇ antibodies (Sigma Aldrich, Cat# A3312 and A3813), diluted to 1 : 10,000 in PBS (pH 7.4) using NBT/BCIP (Thermo Scientific, Cat# 34042) as substrate. Blots were developed for 2-5 minutes, depending on the experiment.
• PVDF polyvinylidene fluoride
• Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay was used to quantitate the amount of antibody present in the crude protein extract of treated plants.
• ELISA plates were coated overnight at 4°C with a mouse polyclonal anti-human lgG1 (Sigma Aldrich, Cat# I5885) capture antibody at 0.6 pg/rnl in PBS.
• Human lgG1 standard (Athens Research and Technology, Cat# 16- 6- 090707) spiked in 5 pg of untreated crude protein extract was used as a standard.
• the standard curve was generated using human lgG1 , which allowed for antibody detection over a range spanning three orders of magnitude (0.1- 100 ng/well).
• Antibodies were purified essentially as described by Grohs et al. (2010).
• N-glycan analyses of purified mAbs were carried out by liquid- chromatography electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (LC-ESI-MS) of tryptic glycopeptides as recently described (Stadlmann et al., 2008).
• LC-ESI-MS liquid- chromatography electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry
• the purified samples were submitted to reducing SDS PAGE and the 55 kD band corresponding to the HC was cut from the gel, S-alkylated, digested with trypsin, eluted from the gel fragment with 50% acetonitril and separated on a Biobasic C18 column (150 x 0.32 mm, Thermo Electron) with a gradient of 1 %- 80% acetonitrile containing 65 mM ammonium formate pH 3.0. Positive ions were detected with a Q TOF Ultima Global mass spectrometer (Waters, Milford, MA, USA). Summed and deconvoluted spectra of the glycopeptides elution range were used for identification of glycoforms. This method generates two glycopeptides that differ by 482 Da (glycopeptide 1 , EEQYNSTYR; glycopeptide 2 TKPREEQYNSTYR).
• Trastuzumab is a therapeutic antibody used in the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer (Baselga et al., 1998; Lewis et al., 1993).
• its heavy (HC) and light (LC) chains were cloned into plant expression cassettes and placed either on a single binary vector (102mAb), or on separate binary vectors (103-106HC and 103-106LC), in which case they were co-expressed (referred to as vector sets 103mAb- 106mAb) to produce the fully assembled antibody.
• the different expression cassettes were designed to carry different combinations of promoters, 5'UTRs, and 3' UTR/terminators ( Figure 1 ).
• Trastuzumab was transiently expressed in N. benthamiana using vector sets 103mAb-106mAb to compare the levels of recombinant antibody production.
• a 7-day expression time-course with whole- plant vacuum infiltration showed a considerable difference in the dynamics and maximal antibody expression among the four vector sets ( Figure 2A).
• Vectors 105mAb and 106mAb resulted in higher maximal antibody accumulation compared to 103mAb and 104mAb.
• Antibody expression peaked at 3-4 days post- infection (d.p.i.) for 103mAb and 104mAb, and at 4-5 d.p.i. for 105mAb, whereas 106mAb showed a steady increase in expression up to 7 days postinfection.
• N- glycosylation profiles of mAbs were determined by LC-ES I-MS (liquid-chromatography electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry).
• mAbs exhibited a largely homogeneous GnGnXF 3 oligosaccharide pattern with plant specific i ,2-xylose and core a1 ,3-fucose residues (see last section of Results).
• N. tabacum is often selected over N. benthamiana for transgenic production.
• the downside of using N. tabacum is the development of necroses at the site of infection by 7 days after the introduction of recombinant P19 to leaf cells via Agroinfiltration (Angel et al., 201 1 ). The reaction that is triggered by P19 in N.
• trastuzumab The level of trastuzumab was reduced in all the crosses at 5 d.p.i. when 103mAb was co-expressed with P19 (Figure 5B). This reduction in antibody expression correlated with discoloration of the treated leaves, followed by necrosis ( Figure 5C). These results indicate that the putative R gene responsible for triggering the HR is nuclear, and that LCR is homozygous recessive for that gene.
• RNAi based silencing is a commonly used method to modify the N-glycosylation pattern towards human like structures in plants (Cox et al., 2006; Sourrouille et al., 2008; Strasser et al., 2008).
• This strategy was also applied to eliminate plant specific N-glycan residues (i.e. xylose and core a1 ,3 fucoce) in Nicotiana benthamiana (AXTFT) by the down-regulation of the respective enzymes fucosyltransferase and xylosyltransferase (Cox et al., 2006; Sourrouille et al., 2008; Strasser et al., 2008).
• AXTFT Nicotiana benthamiana
• P19 can be used for boosting recombinant protein levels expressed in an RNAi-based expression host without altering the protein's glycan profile.
• Transient co-infiltration of P19 expression vector greatly enhances the expression of two more therapeutic antibodies in Nicotiana benthamiana.
• Anti-HIV mAb 4E10 was first described in Buchacher et al. (1994) with its light chain sequence being available in the GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) as entry Gl:122920218 and its heavy chain as a F d /VH in entry Gl: 61680025. This antibody may be used as an anti-HIV vaccine or as a diagnostic reagent.
• Bevacizumab The light and heavy chain sequences of bevacizumab are available from Drugbank (http://www.druqbank.ca/) as entry DB00112. Bevacizumab is used with standard chemotherapy for metastatic colon cancer; it also been approved for use in certain lung cancers, renal cancers, and glioblastoma multiforme of the brain.
• the heavy chain coding sequence for mAb 4E10, and both the light and heavy chain coding sequences for bevacizumab were cloned downstream of the Arabidopsis basic chitinase signal peptide (as above) and inserted into the 103 and 105 vectors.
• the light chain coding sequence for mAb 4E10 was also cloned downstream of the Arabidopsis basic chitinase signal peptide and inserted into the 105 vector and into a version of the 105 vector in which a 162 base-pair deletion of the 5' end of the C. morifolium rbc gene terminator sequence was caused by cleavage at a BspEI site; this latter vector is referred to as p105T (i.e., 105-truncated). All eight vectors were introduced into Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain At542 (as above), then spot-infiltrated, with and without P19 (as above), into N.
• benthamiana leaf tissue in the combinations indicated in Figure 7 and harvested after 7 days.
• Each Agrobacterium strain was applied at a final OD 6 oo of 0.2.
• Tissue harvests for each treatment included 3 or 4 spots, which were pooled and total soluble protein (TSP) was extracted as described in Garabagi et al. (2012a, b).
• TSP total soluble protein
• a 10% non-reducing SDS-PAGE gel was run that included 10 mg TSP for each plant sample.
• Electrophoretically separated proteins were subsequently electrotransferred to PVDF membrane and probed with combined anti- ⁇ and anti- ⁇ antibody probes conjugated to alkaline phosphatase (also described in Garabagi et al., 2012a).
• results indicate that co-expression of P19 greatly enhances expression of both antibodies irrespective of antibody expression vector.
• Butyrylcholinesterase 's a non-specific cholinesterase enzyme that hydrolyses many different choline esters. In humans, it is found primarily in the liver and is encoded by the BCHE gene. It is being developed as an antidote to nerve-gas poisoning.
• Two different BChE expression vectors were constructed in p105T (described above): (1 ) with the Arabidopsis basic chitinase (abc) signal sequence and a synthetic BChE coding sequence optimized for expression in plants referred to as E2, i.e., abc-BChE2; and (2) with the native human BChE signal sequence (hSS) and another synthetic BChE coding sequence optimized for expression in plants referred to as E3, i.e., hSS-BChE3. These were introduced into whole N. benthamiana plants by vacuum infiltration (according to Garabagi et al., 2012a, b), either with or without the P19 (as above).
• transcripts of these expression cassettes are subjected to RNAi silencing, albeit to different extents, and therefore are boosted in the presence of a suppressor of a gene silencing.
• transcripts that only contained plant derived UTRs, such as 106mAb and 102mAb were unaffected by P19, suggesting they were not subjected to any significant RNAi silencing during the observation period.
• P19 is herein also shown to enhance expression of another therapeutic mAb, namely anti-HIV mAb 4E10, using three of the vectors described in this application. These three examples illustrate the potential for P19 to enhance the expression of most any antibody using the vector system presented in this application.
• P 9 is herein also shown to enhance expression of a potential therapeutic enzyme, namely butyrylcholinesterase, using one of the vectors described in this application with either the Arabidopsis basic chitinase signal sequence or with the native human butyrylcholinesterase signal sequence, and using either of two synthetic coding sequences optimized for plant expression of the same identical butyrylcholinesterase polypeptide.
• a potential therapeutic enzyme namely butyrylcholinesterase
• this tobacco genotype and others that have similar R gene mutations may lend themselves to transgenic expression of recombinant proteins using P19 when used with a system capable of generating high titers of the protein.
• LCR can be used as a model for determining the number of genes involved in the hypersensitive response to P19.
• Monoclonal antibodies produced in this mutant carry complex human-like N-glycans lacking plant-specific glycosylation.
• mAbs with such a glycoengineered profile have also shown increased effector functions compared to their mammalian cell-derived counterparts (Forthal et al., 2010; Zeitlin et al., 201 1 ).
• Such glycosylation mutant plants may serve as valuable expression platforms for the generation of therapeutic mAbs.
• P19 would perturb the silencing of XT and FT in AXTFT mutants has not been investigated yet.
• SEQ ID NO:1 P19 nucleotide sequence codon-optimized for expression in Nicotians.
• Sourrouille C Marquet-Blouin E, D'Aoust MA, Kiefer-Meyer MC, Seveno M, Pagny-Salehabadi S, Bardor M, Durambur G, Lerouge P, Vezina L and Gomord V (2008) Down-regulated expression of plant-specific glycoepitopes in alfalfa. Plant Biotechnol J 6:702-721.

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